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GNOME 42 Alpha Released With A Lot Of GTK4 Porting, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 08:44
The alpha release of GNOME 42 is now available for testing...

GCC 12 Moves On To Stage 4 Development With Many New Compiler Features

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 08:00
GCC 12 as this year's annual GNU Compiler Collection feature release has moved on to "stage four" development with likely releasing GCC 12.1 in April...

Platform Firmware Runtime Update & Telemetry Feature Submitted For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 03:17
Last September I was the first to call attention to Intel working on a new feature to allow updating some system firmware components without needing to reboot such as for mission critical servers that try to avoid downtime at all costs. That Intel "Seamless Update" feature also known as Platform Firmware Runtime Update and Telemetry (PFRUT) has now been sent in for mainlining with Linux 5.17...

FFmpeg 5.0 Aims To Be An LTS Release

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 02:54
FFmpeg 5.0 has now been formally christened as for what is aiming to be a Long-Term Support (LTS) release for this widely-used, cross-platform and open-source multimedia library...

Intel's Former Vulkan Driver Lead Dev Lands Great Role For Improving Linux Graphics

Phoronix - Tue, 01/18/2022 - 02:07
Jason Ekstrand who was the lead developer of Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver left Intel in December and has now revealed details about his new role...

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